《英美文学选读》模拟试题(2)答案

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《英美文学选读》模拟试题(二)
梦见冬瓜
一、单项选择题

1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, prented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece the Canterbury Tales.
A. visionary/women 
B. romantic/men 
C. realistic/characters 
D. natural/figures

2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was bad on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.
A. measure          
B. king
C. lover           
D. rule

3.Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their fal standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.
A. Christians/Jews
B. Jews/Christians
C. oppressors/oppresd
D. people/Jews
傳統的理論認為該劇的主題是褒揚安東尼奧Antonio與巴塞尼奧Bassanio之間的友誼,贊美鮑西婭Portia的完美:美貌,智慧與堅貞,並揭露了Jews--Shylock的貪婪與殘忍
但是經曆了几個世紀對對Jews不會平的待遇,今天許多人將該劇的主題看作chritainshypocrisy ,為追求世俗利益而不擇手段以及對Jews不公正的偏見
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1) Bassanio——Portia
2) Antonio——Shylock
The traditional theme of the play is to prai the friendship betweem Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of greate beaulity, wit and loyalty, and to expo the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew. Tody, many people tend to regard the play as a satire of the christians’ hypocrisy and their fal standards of frindship and love, their cunning way of pursuing worldliness(俗心, 俗气) and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.

4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A. Romeo and Juliet     
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet             
D. Macbeth

5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?
A. It is the age of translation.
牛乳石碱B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution
C. It is the age of exploration
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改革
Elizabthan age renaissance period

6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.
A. chastity 純潔
B. holiness 神圣
C. truth
D. error
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1.《仙后》一部寓言(allegory), 人物象征意义与主题.
The Faerie is an allegory.
    The Red-cros Knight stands for St.George, the patron saint of England, and he also reprent Holiness.
A lovely Ladie, virgin Una, symbolizes the thruth or the true faith of religion.
A milke white lambe reprents the God.
Dragon and infernall feend refer the Satan 强烈的近义词惡魔
The theme is not “Arms and the man,” but something more romantic—“fiece warres and faithful loves”.

7._____ first make blank ver the principle instrument of English drama.
A. Shakespeare         
B. Wyatt
C. Sidney             
D. Marlowe 
The passionate Sheherd to his love
Dr Fauctus
馬洛的藝朮成就在於他完善了無韻體詩,並使之成為英國戲劇中最主要的文體形式

8.The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is an example of _____.
A. allegory         
B.simile
C. metaphor       
D. irony

9.In Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) us a rhetorical device called _____.
A. hyperbole         
B. homonym
C. paradox           
D. pun

10.In The Faerie Queene Spenr impress us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.
A. symbolism lyricism   
B. allegory romance
C. elegy narrative       
D. personification irony

11.Milton’s paradi Lost took its material from ______.
A. the Bible         
B. Greek myth
C. Roman myth       
D. French romance

12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.
A. Tamburlaine the Great   帖木兒 
B. The Jew or Malta 馬耳他島的Jew
C. Cymbeline   ---辛白林,Shakespeare          
D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏之夜
C. As You like It皆大欢喜
D. The dactyl  是古代希腊的著名的悲剧 (恰恰是'史诗的诗歌'),英文名字是"The Odysy". Homer写的,800-600 BC左右

14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.
A. The iamb 抑楊格 短長格         
B. The anapest
C. The trochee         
D. The dactyl

15.In a dream vision, Arthur witnesd the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to ek her. The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are from ______.
A. The Fairie Queene 
B. Remeo and Juliet
C. Dr. Faustus       
D. Paradi Lost
仙后格勞麗安娜,所有12個英雄就是按照她的旨意,從她的宮殿出發,踏上各自的曆險征程的,而一號主角Arthur 亞瑟王子的任務就是尋找仙后,他本人已在夢中與仙后墜入情網

16.In Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare _____.
A. meditates on man’s mortality.
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation
C. satirizes human vanity
D. prents a dream vision

17.The 18th century witnesd that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and Tories     
B. the Senate and the Hou of Reprentative
C. the upper Hou and lower Hou 
D. the Hou of Lords and the Hou of Commons

18._____ compiled the The Dictionary of the English language which became the foundation of all the subquent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson       
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope     
D. John Dryden
Samuel Johnson:Neoclassical period---to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield

19.The publication of ______ marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A. Don Juan         
B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads 
D. Queen Mab

20.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled _____.
A. Biographic literary   
B. The Prelude 序曲
C. Lucy Poems       
D. The Lyrical Ballads
序曲的創作始於1790年,1805年,經曆了大幅度的修改於1850年在作者去世后發表,許多評論家將序曲看作wordsworth最偉大的作品

21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?
A. Queen Mab       
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Prometheus Bound   
D. The Revolt of Islam

22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?
A. An Essay on criticism 
B. A Defence of Poetry 詩辨
C. On the Necessity of Atheism
D. Of studies

23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. Romanism       
B. naturalism
C. realism           
D. critical realism---victorian period  Dickens  Eliot

24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the miry of the common people.
A. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Charles Dickens
C. charlotte Bronte           
D. Emily Dickinson
Dickens 是偉大的批判理實主義作家,他以揭露評擊社會的不公,虛偽,腐敗為已任
他的大部分作品,包含那些一時靈感驅動的創作,都扎根在他深入了解的城市小資產階級生活中。

25._____ was a critical realist and also a vere expor of contemporary society. His novels, such as Vanity Fair , are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society. Strata: stratum的復數 社會階層
A. George Eliot           
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. William Makepeace Thackeray --- becky sharp
D. John Bunyan
vanity fair中文是《名利场》。
《名利场》是英国十九世纪小说家萨克雷的成名作品,也是他生平著作里最经得起时间考验的杰作。故事取材于很热闹的英国十九世纪中上层社会。当时国 家强盛,工商业发达,由榨压殖民地或剥削劳工而发财的富商大贾正主宰着这个社会,英法两国争权的战争也在这时响起了炮声。中上层社会各式各等人物,都忙着 争权夺位,争名求利,所谓天下攘攘,皆为利往,天下熙熙,皆为利来,名利、权势、利禄,原是相连相通的。

故事主角是一个机灵乖巧的漂亮姑娘。她尝过贫穷的滋味,一心要掌握自己的命运,摆脱困境。她不择手段,凭谄媚奉承、走小道儿钻后门,飞上高枝。作 为陪衬的人物是她同窗女友、一个富商的女儿。她懦弱温柔,驯顺地随命运播弄。从贫贱进入富裕的道路很不平稳!富家女的运途亦多坎坷,两人此起彼落的遭遇, 构成一个引人关怀又动人情感的故事。穿插的人物形形色色,都神情毕肖。萨克雷富讥智,善讽刺,《名利场》是逗趣而又启人深思的小说。

26.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ______.
A. A Tale of Two Cities    
B. Great Expectations
C. Hard Times         
D. David Copperfield

27.The renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a ries of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient roman and Greek culture.
B. England’s domestic rest.
C. new discovery in geography and astrology.
D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion.

28.So long as men can breathe, or eyes can e,/ so long lives this , and this gives life to thee. What does this means?
A. lover
B. time
C. summer
D. poetry

29.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except          .
A mystery of the univer
B sin of the whale
C power of the great nature
D evil of the world
Melville –Moby Dick  Romantic period

30.In Shelley’s to a skylark, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet          .
A. both celestial rapture and human limitation
B. both image creation and profound meaning
C. both music and words
D. both inspiration and skill of writing

31.Do you think, becau I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?... 
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from         .
A Great Expectations
B Wuthering Heights
C Jane Eyre
D Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte  Jane Eyre Victorian period

32.And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt are found in          .
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Jane Eyre
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. Paradi Lost
Emily Bronte---Victorian Period

33.Theodore Dreir is generally regarded as one of America’s          .
A. naturalist
B. realists
C. modernists
D. romanticists
Theodore Dreir—Sister Carrie  the realistic period

34.The first two lines of Dennison’s poem Break, Break, Break on thy cold grey stones, o a! the repeated word break suggests          . 成人高考改革
A. joy
B. fear
C. fondness
D. hatred
Alfred Tennyson :Victorian period 
Crossing The Bar
Break Break Break
Ulyss
這是Tennson 寫給亡友 Arthur Hallam 表達詩人悲痛欲絕的心情

35.O prince, O chief of my throned powers,/ that led th’embattled raphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/ Fearless, endangered heaven’s perpetual king’ In the third line of the above passage quoted from Melton’s Paradi Lost, the phra thy conduct refers to          conduct.
A. god’s
B. Satan’s
C. Adam’s
D. Eve’s
Melton :The Renassace period Paradi Lost

36.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?
A. Emerson
B. jack London
C. Theodore Dreir
D. Darwin

37.In terms of Elegy written in a country churchyard, which is wrong?
A. the author employs metaphor in this poem
B. the author excessively express his personal melancholy  作者過分地表達了他的優傷
C. here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.
D. he mocks the great ones who despi the poor and bring havoc on them.

38.Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are t in Wesx--         .
A. a crude region in England
B. a fictional primitive region
C. a remote rural area
D. Hardy’s hometown

39.place me on sunium’s marbled steep,/ where nothing, save the waves and I, / may hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/ there, swan- like, let me sing and die;/ a land of slaves shall neer be mine --- dash down you cup of samian wine! the lines are taken from          .
A. The Isles of Greece by Byron
B. Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
C. The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
D. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron
Byron: Romantic period  song for the Luddies  / The Isles Of Greece By Byron
二、综合题

1.Reading Comprehension:
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root---
Let there be commerce between us.
Questions:
A. What is the title from which the lines are taken?
A Pact
B. Who does you refers to?
White waltman
C. What is the meaning of broke are new wood?
Made experiments with the conventions of traditional poetry

2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.
By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggles of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she emed to fight for his very against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful.
Never mind, Little, he murmured. So long as you don’t feel life’ paltry and a mirable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
She presd him to her.
But I want you to be happy, she said pathetically.
Eh, my dear ----- say rather you want me to live.
說到這里,Mrs. Morel 渾身劇烈發抖,她就好象是在力圖保全他這條生命而竭力打消他只求一死的念頭而搏斗,他們母子之間經常發生這樣的搏斗。他把她摟在懷里,她病了,怪可憐的
小乖乖,別擔心! 他喃喃地說,“只要你不認為做人是件微不足道地悲慘事,幸福也罷,不幸福也罷,都無關緊要.
可是我要你幸福,她把他緊緊抱住,可憐巴巴地說
呃,親愛的---不如說你要我活下去吧

A. This passage is taken from the novel _____.
Sons and lovers
B. The author of the novel is _____.
D.H Lawrence
C. He in the passage refers to _____, and he is the _____ of Mrs. Morel.
He is the passasge refers to Paul,and he is the son of Mrs. Morel
D. The relationship of the two characters as implied in the passage is something of the type of _____.
Oedipus Complex---戀母情節

3.Reading Comprehension:
This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me---
The simple News that Nature told---
With tender Majesty.
A. Who is the author of the stanza?
Emily Dickson
B. Which period does the poem belongs to?
The realistic period
C. What idea does the poem express?
The poem express Dickson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside

4.Reading Comprehension:
Men of England, wherefore plough  英格闌人,為什麼耕地
For the lords who lay ye low? 為那些把你們踩在腳下的老爺
Wherefore weave with toil and care 為什麼辛辛苦苦紡織
The rich robes your tyrants wear?讓你們的暴君穿上豪華的衣袍
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
A song : Men of England P.B. Shelley
B. In one or two ntences interprets the implied meaning of the stanza.
The poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to ri up against their political oppressors,but also an adress to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation
C. Which period does the poem belongs to?
Romantic period

5.Questions and Answers:
What do you think of the relationship between William Faulkner and American south literature
A. Most of his works are t in the American south
B. He emphasizes the southen subject and consciousness in his works
C. His work has managed successfully to show a panorama of experience and consciouness of the whole southern society

6.Questions and Answers:
Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the romantic period is called the American renaissance. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.
A. The whole nation had a strong n of optimism and the mood of feeling good,giving birth to the spectacular 引人入勝的 out burst of ramantic feeling
B. 不字的成语The English counterpart 相似之物 exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of young nation
C. Taking foreign influence into consideration ,the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color
D. The yong nation had brought forth its own pilosophy ,transcendentalism ,
stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively ,and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the n
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the end of the 18th century — the outbreak of the Civil War(Washington Irving’s The Sketch to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass) 浪漫主義時期的文學是美國文學的繁榮時期,所以也稱為“美國的文藝復興
Romantic in American
Romantic in English
Stress the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature
Pay attention to psychic states of the characters and exalt the individual and common man
Native land,espeically the spirit of the pioneering into the west, the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature
U local dialect in language

7.Questions and Answers:
What are the characteristics of the romantic literature? Plea discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.
A. In poetry writing,the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques,for example ,the preface of the cond edition of the Lyrical Ballardact as a manifesto for the new school
B. The romanticist not only extols(贊美)the faculty of imagination,but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity 自發性 and inspiration
C. They regard nature as the major resource of poetic imagery and dominant subject
D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic
Romantic
Neoclassical
Negative attitude toward the existing social and political condition
Saw the corruption and injustice of inhumanity of capitalism
Man as individual in the solitary state
Man as a social
Stresd special qualities of each indivicual’s mind
Stresd the common feature of men
Inner world of human spirit
Indivicual as the center of all experience
Celebrated rationality,equality,science of outside
poetry
pro

8.Questions and Answers:
George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time, what’s his viewpoint on literature?
George Bernard Shaw :modern period , Mrs. Warren’s Profession
A. His playwright have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of contemperory social,economic ,moral,and religious evils 他早年的作品都與社會問題有關,坦當地揭露當時的社會,經濟,道德,宗教中的罪惡。
B. Shaw follow the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist,he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reform  Shaw 承襲了現實主義,作為現實主義戲劇家,他注重剖析社會問題,意識實現社會改良的理想。 他的劇作可以被冠以一個統一的名稱:問題劇, 只有一種情感“憤怒
C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one charactly vividly at the expen of another,another one is that his character are reprentative of ideas and points of view  經常不惜貶低另一些角色來極為生動形象地展示某一個角色
D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion倒轉錯位 of a conventional theatrical situation  Shaw 的許多戲劇情節與角色都在傳統的基礎上發生倒轉錯位, 這種inversion是他對生活中各種問題的最佳解釋方法

9.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.
Moby-dick is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers, try to discuss the symbolism in the book.
A. Melville is a master of allegory and symbolism
B. Different people on the board are reprentation of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups
C. The Pequod皮跨德船is the microcosm of human society and vayage becomes a arch for truth
D. For Melville, Moby Dick symbolizes nature,
E. for Ahab,it reprents only evil, Ahad wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce 刺穿 wall,to root out the evil,but only to be destroyed by evil
F. For reader and Ishmael,the narrator, Moby Dick is still mystery ,an ultimate 最終mystery of the univer,inscrutable (不能预测的)and ambivalent(矛盾的),and the voyage of mind will forever remain a reach ,not discovery , of the truth

10.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.
Discuss enlightenment movement.
A. 如何制作系统u盘It was a progressive intellectual movement,which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance (促進) of renaissance from the 14 century to the mid-17th century
B. The purpo of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic idea,it celebrated reason of rationality,equality and science, and it advocated universal education.
C. It advocated universal education .Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education



答案部分
一、单项选择题
1.
正确答案 C
2.
正确答案 A
3.
正确答案 A
4.
正确答案 A
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 C
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 A
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 D
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正确答案 B
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正确答案 B
39.
正确答案 A
二、综合题
1.
正确答案 A. A Pact
B. Walt whit man
C. made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry.
2.
正确答案 A. Sons and Lovers
榆耳B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Paul / Son
D. Oedipus Complex
3.
正确答案 A. Emily Dickinson
B. the realistic period
C. the poem express Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.
4.
正确答案 A. A song: men of England, Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. the poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to ri up against their political oppressors, but also an address to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation,
C. The romantic period.
5.
正确答案 A. Most of his works are t in the American south.
B. He emphasizes the southern subjects and consciousness in his works.
C. His works has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society.
6.
正确答案 A. The whole nation had a strong n of optimism and the mood of feeling good, Giving birth to the spectacular out burst of romantic feeling.
B. The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.
C. Taking foreign influence into consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color.
D. The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy, transcendentalism, stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the n.
7.
正确答案 A. In poetry writing, the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques, for example, the Preface to the cond edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school.
B. The romanticist not only extols the faculty of imagination, but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.
牡丹亭电影C. They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.
D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic.
8.
正确答案 A.  His playwrights have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils.
B. Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.
C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expen of another; another one is that his characters are the reprentatives of ideas and points of view.
D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.
9.
正确答案 A. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a arch for truth.
B. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.
C. For the character Ahab, however, the whale reprents only evil.
D. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind.
E. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil.
F. In this ca, by his own consuming desire, his madness. Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the univer, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a arch, not a discovery, of the truth.
10.
正确答案 It was a progressive intellectual movement, which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance of the renaissance from the 14th century to the mid-17th century. The purpo of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas, it celebrated reason of rationality, equality and science, and it advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.

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